Inter Press Service
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Inter Press Service (IPS) is an international news agency with the thematic focus on reporting on developing countries , civil society and globalization .
According to its own information, IPS aims to give disadvantaged people and groups a voice, to report from the point of view of developing countries and to reflect the viewpoints of civil society. Equality between men and women (so-called gender mainstreaming ) is seen as a priority in reporting, as is the assessment of the effects of globalization . Above all, reports and features as well as background information are offered. The non-governmental organization with advisory status in the UN Economic and Social Council and the OECD status of an international organization entitled to receive official development aidNon-governmental organization .
history
It was founded in 1964 as an international non-profit journalists' association by the Italian journalist Roberto Savio and the Argentine political scientist Pablo Piacentini. The initial goal of IPS was to fill the "information gap " between Europe and Latin America that opened up following the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Organization and financing
There are regional offices: Montevideo (regional office for Latin America ), Berlin - London ( Europe and Mediterranean ), New Delhi ( Asia and Pacific ), New York ( North America and the Caribbean ) and Johannesburg ( Africa ). Most journalists report from their home country.
IPS is financed by media clients, as recipients of multilateral and international development cooperation programs and by project financing from foundations . According to Rauch, IPS is roughly the sixth largest international intelligence service.
services
All kinds of media as well as civil society and UN organizations are subscribers to IPS. In addition, there are numerous individuals who receive the free news service on the Internet in English and Spanish and in translation into ten other languages, namely Arabic, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Swahili.
In addition, IPS publishes a newsletter during certain major events such as UN conferences or the World Social Forum . In addition to the news service, IPS offers training for journalists and maintains project partnerships with civil society organizations and social movements .
rating
IPS currently only occupies a marginal position in the international media landscape. Reasons for this include a .:
- the limited financial resources;
- the low number of correspondents (in many countries IPS only employs freelancers);
- Lack of financial and human resources to report adequately on all regions and topics and to deliver timely news and follow-up reports;
- the fact that the emphasis on background information is not particularly attractive to the market-driven commercial media (Giffard, 1998: 200).
In 2005 Inter Press Service was awarded the Alternative Media Prize.
literature
- Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Terhi Rantanen (Ed.): The Globalization of News. Sage Publications, London 1998.
- Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Daya Kishan Thussu: Contra-flow in global news. International and regional news exchange mechanisms. John Libbey, London 1992.
- Jonathan Fenby: The International News Agencies. Schocken Books, New York 1986.
- C. Anthony Giffard: Alternative News Agencies. In: O. Boyd-Barrett, T. Rantanen (Eds.): The Globalization of News. Sage Publications, London 1998.
- IPS: Style Manual. IPS, Rome (no date). (unpublished)
- Jennifer Rauch: Rooted in Nations, Blossoming in Globalization? A Cultural Perspective on the Content of a “Northern” Mainstream and a “Southern” Alternative News Agency. In: Journal of Communication Inquiry. Vol. 27, no. 1, Sage Publications, London 2003, pp. 87-103.
- Michael Salwen, Bruce Garrison: Latin American Journalism. Lawrence Erlbaum Ass, New York 1991.
- Martin Sturmer: 50 years of Inter Press Service (IPS) . Salzburg 2014: https://storify.com/sturmer/50-jahre-inter-press-service-ips
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ips.org/institutional/our-global-structure/
- ↑ http://www.ips.org/institutional/get-to-know-us-2/our-history/
- ^ Giffard in Salwen and Garrison, 1991
- ↑ 2003: 89
- ↑ Boyd-Barrett and Rantanen, 1998: 175